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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-06-22 02:19:30 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140622021930-icl7h4cm97blhjml
mandos-keygen: Generate "checker" option to use SSH fingerprints.

To turn this off, use a new "--no-ssh" option to mandos-keygen.

* INSTALL (Mandos Server, Mandos Client): Document new suggested
                                          installation of SSH.
* Makefile (confdir/clients.conf): Use new "--no-ssh" option to
                                   "mandos-keygen".
* debian/control (mandos/Depends): Changed to "fping | ssh-client".
  (mandos-client/Recommends): New; set to "ssh".
* intro.xml (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS): Rename and rewrite section
                                          called "Faking ping
                                          replies?" to address new
                                          default behavior.
* mandos-clients.conf.xml (OPTIONS/checker): Briefly discuss new
                                             behavior of
                                             mandos-keygen.
* mandos-keygen: Bug fix: Suppress failure output of "shred" to remove
                 "sec*", since no such files may exist.
 (password mode): Scan for SSH key fingerprints and output as new
                  "checker" and "ssh_fingerprint" options, unless new
                  "--no-ssh" option is given.
* mandos-keygen.xml (SYNOPSIS/--force): Bug fix: Document short form.
  (OPTIONS/--no-ssh): New.
  (SEE ALSO): Add reference "ssh-keyscan(1)".
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (SECURITY): Briefly mention the
                                          possibility of using SSH key
                                          fingerprints for checking.

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  is possible to verify that the correct password will be received by
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  this client by running the command, on the client:
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        /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
 
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        /usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH \
 
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        )/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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                --pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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                --seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt; echo
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  The device can also be overridden at boot time on the Linux kernel
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  command line using the sixth colon-separated field of the "ip="
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  option; for exact syntax, read the documentation in the file
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  "/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-*/Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt",
 
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  "/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-*/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt",
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  available in the "linux-doc-*" package.
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  Note that since the network interfaces are used in the initial RAM
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  work, "--options-for=mandos-client:--connect=<ADDRESS>:<PORT>" needs
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  to be manually added to the file "/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf".
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 -- Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@recompile.se>, Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:09:58 +0200
 
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 -- Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@recompile.se>, Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:02:26 +0100